Day: September 30, 2024

The Legend of Super Kitty

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In the quiet town of Whisker Falls, there was a cat named Miko. Miko wasn’t like the other cats who roamed the alleyways or lounged lazily in the sun. Ever since she was a kitten, she had always been fascinated by the tales of ancient feline warriors—legendary cats who once defended the world from danger, using their sharp reflexes, clever tactics, and most importantly, their mastery of Cat-Fu, a long-lost martial art.

The Legend of Super Kitty

President Maduro Expresses Venezuela’s Solidarity With Palestine and Lebanon Against Zionist Aggression and Nasrallah’s Assassination

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed the solidarity of the Venezuelan government and people with the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, victims of military attacks carried out by Israeli occupation forces with the support of the US army. Before thousands of people in the city of La Guaira, President Maduro condemned the Zionist entity for killing more than a thousand people in its attacks on civilian areas of Lebanon this week, including around 500 children, a massacre added to the genocide being perpetrated for almost a year in the Gaza Strip, with nearly 42,000 people killed, around 10,000 missing, and some 100,000 wounded.

President Maduro Expresses Venezuela’s Solidarity With Palestine and Lebanon Against Zionist Aggression and Nasrallah’s Assassination

Verizon Mobile Users Report Outages Across the U.S 🆘

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
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Thousands of Verizon users across the United States reported having little or no cellphone service on Monday morning in major cities, including in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix and across a swath of the Midwest.

Verizon Mobile Users Report Outages Across the U.S

Woke up from my nap to see ‘SOS’ on my iPhone. I’ve never seen that before, so did an internet search for ‘iPhone SOS’. Good thing I still have a home phone.

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The Danger of Bullshit: Revisiting Harry Frankfurt’s Classic Essay

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‘The liar is inescapably concerned with truth-values. In order to invent a lie at all, he must think he knows what is true.’ (p. 51)

The Danger of Bullshit: Revisiting Harry Frankfurt’s Classic Essay

Harry Frankfurt argues that bullshit is more dangerous than lying. At first sight, this seems counter-intuitive. Surely lying is worse than bullshitting? Liars are intentionally and deliberately trying to deceive us. Normally, doing something bad (e.g. deceiving someone) intentionally makes the action worse than if it is done unintentionally, for example accidentally or absentmindedly. If this is the case, how can bullshit be worse than lying?

The reason Frankfurt gives is that, whereas liars at least pay some respect to the difference between what is true and what isn’t, bullshitters completely disregard it. They simply don’t care about the difference. This, Frankfurt argues, means that compulsive bullshitters become progressively less able to tell the truth than compulsive liars. Liars and truth tellers are playing on opposite sides of the same game. Bullshitters are playing a different game entirely where the rules of truth don’t matter. This lack of concern, Frankfurt argues, is more corrosive of one’s ability to distinguish the truth than deliberately obscuring the truth. Once one gets into the habit of bullshitting, it is difficult to get out of it.

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